I'm a tad curious about the newsagents shop in the first photo. I'm guessing the goat outside the shop was either in lieu of payment for a very large newspaper bill, or perhaps this was the only place in Salisbury that stocked Satanic Rites Weekly??!!

Whilst the main subject of the photo is "uninspiring" in itself, I love the rich, warm colours in the gasworks shot.

And what's wrong with videos of people putting bins out?.. I find them both enthralling and entertaining in equal measure"!!

If I could afford this lens, I'd give my butler the task of unpacking it.

Nigel - Win8 does appear daunting to the uninitiated, but it is actually quite user-friendly once you get to grips with it. The only thing I'm struggling with at the moment is that, whenever I load a new piece of software onto it, it wants to add it as an app on the start window, and I have to unpin it. When I get the chance, I'll "pop the bonnet up" and switch it off in the registry. In the meantime, I'm rebuilding my old rig, and I'll have it as a dedicated photo suite for archiving and editing. The Win8 has my torrents, videos, music, photos, and the wife's "lady-things (including the Silkypix software for her "lady-camera") on there.

*LADY-CAMERA = Pentax Q that my darling beloved "conned" me into buying her as a Christmas present.

Funny you should mention that, Nigel.. I never really thought about it, but since I bought a new rig running Win8 (with 4Gb DDR3 RAM), the cpu doesn't seem to struggle quite so much. I don't suppose it makes too much difference the fact that this is a 32-bit program running on a 64-bit machine either.

If not actually fake, then they are at least heavily cropped - especially the 1st photo. The goalkeeper is stood pretty much central in the 6-yard box, and between the keeper and the 2 players almost exactly on the 18-yard line, you can see the 6-yard line. I'm only guessing here, but with the suggested focal length in photo 1's exif data, the angle of view seem to suggest that the photog was on (or just inside) the side line. If he was in the spectators area, then I'd expect to see a hint of the corner flag in this photo.

I think so too!! If the guy was trackside, I'd have expected to see a greater d.o.f. (fans out of focus). I think the big giveaway is the fact that the exif data says that the lens used was a 60mm focal length - either that, or Brendan Rogers signed Brian Mason in the January transfer window, and forgot to tell the media that they had a new player!

I think the different "flavours" of IE works differently. As I'm now running Win8 with IE10, I get a cogwheel. In IE9, I think you click TOOLS, OPTIONS, then proceed from there.

So long as you get there in the end, that's all that really counts I suppose.

Cedric - on your toolbar (top-right, underneath the red X that closes your internet browser) there should be a little cogwheel. Click on this, then scroll down to SAFETY. Hover over this until you get a drop-down box. In the drop-down, you will see an item marked TRACKING PROTECTION. Click this. A box entitled MANAGE ADD-ONS should now present itself to you. On the left-hand side, you will see ADD-ON TYPES - go down onto the line called TRACKING PROTECTION. You will now see a list of various options - like everyone else, I use Adblock Plus, although I find that sometimes it can be a wee bit "over-zealous" (it will block images presented in emails I get from the likes of Tesco, Celtic Superstore, etc), but if you encounter anything you don't like about a particular ad-blocker, just tinker about in there until you find the one that most suits your needs/wants.

Gwyn - Page 5 of the PDF above (Section II - Packing Instructions 965 – 970) allows exceptions for "small batteries and cells" within the guidelines do not need a declaration under DGR reg's... I told you - the regulations are a total mish-mash!!

Maybe Pentax's next batch of new cameras can be solar-powered then!!

Gwyn - the reg's are a bit of a mish-mash, but like I stated earlier, so long as the batteries are correctly packed and labelled, they can ride in the hold of an aircraft. I posted a thread on this around November of 2012 on this. I'd need to hunt down the specific memo I have on this on the office database, but basically the following label should be applied (with a contact phone number stated on the bottom of it) to the overpack:





ATM, I'm stuck in the office, preparing our shipments for export, so I might not neccessarily be able to find and post the specific memo I got last year on this.

UPDATE:

I found the PDF that was sent to us by the freight and courier associations - link

HAPPY READING!!... It's 27 pages long!!